Past Quotes
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We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.
James L. Farmer, Jr.
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Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it’s Eternity. In India, they use the word ‘karma,’ for lack of any better term.
Paulo Coelho
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We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.
John Eaton
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Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?
Mary Manin Morrissey
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Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one's past and to not run away from it. And to come to some sort of relationship with it or understanding of it.
Anderson Cooper
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I do want to play characters that have redeeming qualities, that are likable, for sure, and I have in the past, and I will again.
Pablo Schreiber
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People's attitudes have been changing over the past 15 years, but China is still the world's biggest consumer of dogs.
Jill Robinson
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Silence fell. The clock on my mantel ticked aloud and the wind outside flowed past like a river.
Poul Anderson
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Stilled legendary depth:It was as deep as England. It heldPike too immense to stir, so immense and oldThat past nightfall I dared not cast.
Ted Hughes
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Nothing is a bigger waste of time than regretting the past and worrying about the future.
James Meredith
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Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values.
Samuel Dash
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Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously from.
Rachel True
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I'm proud of my curves, my daughter, as well as the harsh past that helped shape me into the strong woman I am today.
La'Porsha Renae
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Town-scapes are changing. The open-plan city belongs in the past - no more ramblas, no more pedestrian precincts, no more left banks and Latin quarters. We're moving into the age of security grilles and defensible space. As for living, our surveillance cameras can do that for us. People are locking their doors and switching off their nervous systems.
J. G. Ballard
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There is a great need today for all mankind to heed the plea to cease to find fault one with another. Some of us are so accustomed to wearing faultfinding spectacles that we cannot see past them. We need to open our eyes and ears and look for the good and the blessings around us.
Marvin J. Ashton
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
Bette Davis
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I ride my bike past the Danish Parliament, and it's very accessible - there's really no security!
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
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Let's just shatter the illusion. I am not wealthy. I've lived in the same house for the past 30 years.
Liam Cunningham
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We are not post-racial. And in many ways we don't even know how to have a conversation about being post-racial. Until we get out of that old-school way of thinking about race and opportunity and the ability to transcend some of the past of this country, then we're going to be stuck in the 20th-century conversation about race.
Donna Brazile
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Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.
Martin Yan
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
Wislawa Szymborska
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One is always at home in one's past.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
James Broughton
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A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.
Louis L'Amour